This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.

Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world, she explores how our very consciousness is animated and enlivened by the archaic rhythms and erupting oscillations of weather. We share Ehrlich’s experience of the thrills of cold, but also her questions: What will happen to us if we are “deseasoned”? If winter ends, will we survive?

This is an ex-library book.

I love reading about Gretel Ehrlich's relationship with nature, and cold. I just hope we don't kill both off.
Off to therubycanary.

Thanks for sending this across the ocean. I'm a huge Ehrlich fan, and although I can relate to her experiences in some the other non-fiction I've read by her, I'm not sure I will have the same connection to love of the cold. ;)

This interesting book has now arrived in the warm and sunny Florida - well, actually not that sunny now we have a hurricane around the corner. Thanks, dear friends.

The glacier melts and this book comes to surface again... lol

I thought this is a book about ice, so I planned to read it for the Biography about Things bookbox. Turns out it's more a travelog, though that doesn't quite describe the book either, as the journey is as much an exploration of her emotional landscape as the snow covered land around her.

I am decidedly not a cold weather person, just reading passages of the book makes me shiver and wondered, why would someone even want to live in a place like that? On the other hand, I would be too miserably cold to enjoy the scenery, so I should be glad that she so poetically described it for me...

Will save this for the travelog book box.

After some time in sunny Florida, now it's heading north again!

This book came home in my travel narrative bookbox. Will be adding it to my TBR mountain.